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Profitable Christian Business

A Christian business podcast for Christian entrepreneurs who want to build a profitable, Christ-centered business without compromising their faith, family, or values.

Discover practical strategies at the intersection of faith and business, biblical entrepreneurship, and sustainable growth.

Hosted by Doug Greathouse, this show equips faith-driven founders to lead, steward, and scale with clarity and purpose.

Each episode delivers honest conversations and actionable insight to help you:

Build a Christ-centered business with clarity and confidence

Strengthen your leadership through biblical wisdom and stewardship

Create sustainable revenue using ethical, values-based strategies

Grow without sacrificing your faith, family, or peace

You’ll hear:

Interviews with Christian entrepreneurs, founders, and business leaders

Biblical perspectives on money, leadership, decision-making, and calling

Practical systems for marketing, sales, productivity, and scale

Real stories of faith, obedience, resilience, and business growth

This is not a hustle podcast or a get-rich-quick show.
It’s a podcast for believers who want to build businesses that honor God, serve people well, and create lasting impact.

If you’re looking for a Christian entrepreneurship podcast, a faith-based business podcast, or guidance on building a profitable Christian business, you’re in the right place.

Subscribe and join a growing community of Christian leaders committed to building businesses that matter.

Latest Episodes:

Your 2027 Starts Now: One 90-Day Goal to Carry Into the New Year Oct 28, 2026

Show notes

Your next year does not have to start from zero.

In this solo episode of The Profitable Christian Business Podcast, Doug Greathouse challenges the idea that the year is already over. A 90-day goal started now can carry you through the holidays and into the new year with momentum.

The framework is simple:

Get clear on one specific goal.
Make it uncomfortable but finishable in 90 days.
Choose two or three weekly needle movers.
Review honestly every week and adjust around the holidays.

Doug also reflects on Psalm 90:12 and the difference between biblical rest and drift. The challenge: take 30 minutes before this week ends, write one goal in one sentence, put a finish date on it and do your first needle mover tomorrow.

Explore Goal Getting: https://goalgetting.app

If this helps, share it with one business owner who is already coasting toward January.

Hug the Cactus: Why Christians Do Hard Things | Kevin Baisley Oct 21, 2026

Show notes

Kevin Baisley, founder of Listen 4 Wisdom, joins Doug to talk about obedience, joy, and building an app by faith with no tech background. Kevin shares how a counselor of 15 years turned a sleepless night into a tool that gives Scripture, psychology, and practical next steps in seconds, why he says to hug the cactus when life gets hard, and why specific prayers matter. Encouraging for any Christian business owner who feels unqualified for what God has put in front of them.

In this episode

Kevin's faith journey and the move from Minnesota to Florida
The idea behind Listen 4 Wisdom
Scripture, psychology, and practical steps in one answer
Obedience and trusting God's timing
Building an app with no tech background
Hugging the cactus: facing hard things with faith
Prayer, patience, and perseverance for entrepreneurs
Where the joy of the Lord comes from

Links

Listen 4 Wisdom Try the app Turn your next faithful step into action with Goal Getting

There Is No Such Thing as Work-Life Balance | Brett Billups Oct 14, 2026

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What if the way you run HR, hire, and lead one-on-one is really a form of discipleship?

In this episode, Doug Greathouse talks with Brett Billups, a longtime HR executive, former CHRO, and author of Biblical HR: Applying Eternal Truths to Everyday Work. Brett shares how biblical principles can transform HR practices and organizational culture, with a focus on leadership, discipleship, and strategic alignment for profitable, kingdom-focused businesses.

Brett has led HR in Fortune 100 companies, for a large employee-owned general contractor, and for the world's largest chaplaincy service. He explains how he learned to connect Sunday and Monday, why he believes there is no such thing as work-life balance, only one life lived under God's priorities, and what HR looks like when it acts as a business driver instead of a paperwork department: planning the people you will need, hiring for heart, holding people accountable the way Jesus did, and why one-on-one workplace discipleship may be the missing piece behind employee engagement.

In this episode:

Why Brett says there is no work-life balance, only one life

Religion versus relationship, and what changed when Brett realized he was not as saved as he thought

What it means to pray without ceasing

Moving HR from administration to strategy, with a simple people strategy model

Why engagement and well-being matter more than any single training program

Workplace discipleship: why Brett replaced staff meetings with weekly one-on-ones

How to bring biblical principles into a workplace where not everyone shares your faith

Hiring the heart, plus interview questions that reveal character

Accountability and termination: the woman at the well versus the Pharisees

The biggest lie leaders tell themselves about culture

CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction to Brett Billups and Biblical HR

01:05 Observing Leadership Styles in Any Environment

02:06 Brett's Journey to Biblical HR and Faith

04:17 Connecting Faith and Work: Personal Transformation

06:57 Religion Versus Relationship

12:02 There Is No Work-Life Balance, Only One Life

14:32 What Praying Without Ceasing Really Means

16:29 What Surprised Brett Most About People in Every Sector

18:00 The Role of Joy and Culture in a Healthy Organization

19:44 Shifting HR from Administrative to Strategic

26:36 The Biblical Model of Selection, Engagement, and Development

32:39 The Power of Personal Discipleship in Organizations

39:32 Applying Biblical Principles in a Modern Workplace

41:37 Human Dignity and Hiring the Heart

47:13 Correction, Accountability, and Performance Management

50:25 Common Misconceptions About Company Culture

52:34 Resources and Next Steps for Implementing Biblical HR

54:09 Final Thought

LINKS

Brett Billups: https://biblicalhr.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-billups-3488666/

Book: https://a.co/d/00yjGVlm

Turn your next faithful step into action: https://goalgetting.app

Keywords (from Doug's show notes): Biblical HR, organizational culture, leadership, discipleship, strategic HR, Christian business, employee engagement, workplace transformation

AI Agents Doing the Work of a Hire Oct 07, 2026

Show notes

What would it cost you each month to hire someone to build your software tools, run your research, and take your meeting notes? Doug Greathouse tells you what he pays for the same work: $135 a month.

In this solo episode, Doug walks through what AI has actually done inside his business, with real costs and no hype. He shares the three jobs his AI tools handle today: building SEO, ads and social agents with Codex, a funding research agent built for a client, and an AI meeting notes pipeline. He is also honest about what AI does not do, and what it still takes from him: setup time and checking the work.

Then the faith side. Using the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25, Doug asks whether we are being faithful with the tools we have been handed, and why faithful means both putting tools to work and cutting the ones that do not earn their place.

You will leave with a six-step assignment to find one repeatable task, price your own hour, test one AI tool for a month, and decide with real numbers.

In this episode:

What $135 a month of AI buys in a real business
Three AI jobs: building agents, client funding research, meeting notes
Why a hire is not the same as a tool
Matthew 25 and stewardship of AI
A six-step weekly assignment

Get clear on your next 90 days with Goal Getting: https://goalgetting.app More episodes: https://profitablechristianbusiness.com/profitable-christian-business-podcast

Partnering with God in Business: Prayer, Discernment and Spiritual Warfare with James Williams Sep 30, 2026

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What does it look like to make prayer part of the way you run your business, rather than something you fit in after everything else?

Doug Greathouse talks with James Williams, author, podcaster, speaker and creator of Dark Waters, about what James calls partnering with God in business. James shares how he organizes his day around prayer, learns to discern the Holy Spirit's direction, and makes room for faith when work feels overwhelming.

The conversation moves into James's views on spiritual warfare, repentance, generational patterns, and the relationship between priesthood and kingship. Doug and James also discuss business setbacks, sacrifice, removing distractions, and praying for protection over a business and home.

In this episode: - Making time for prayer when business feels overwhelming - Hearing God's voice through prayer, scripture and experience - James's perspective on repentance and generational patterns - Why James connects spiritual life with business leadership - Learning from business setbacks and trusting God - Removing distractions to make room for spiritual growth - The "gates of prayer" and James's biblical explanation - Praying for protection over your business and home

CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction and welcome to James Williams 01:40 Organizing the business day around prayer 06:06 Overwhelm, sacrifice and partnering with God 12:08 Hearing God's voice and discerning His direction 21:37 Repentance and spiritual communication 26:38 Generational patterns and the bloodline 32:55 Priesthood, kingship and business leadership 44:18 Removing distractions for spiritual growth 49:17 The gates of prayer and their biblical basis 54:35 Praying for protection over business and home 01:06:32 Where to follow James and a possible part two 01:08:22 Final challenge: make time to pray

Curative Culture: How Christian Leaders Build Workplaces People Want to Stay In | Douglas Shaw Sep 23, 2026

Show notes

What does it actually feel like to work for you?

You can put Christian values on your website.

You can talk about servant leadership.

You can say people come first.

But your employees experience your culture every single day—and their experience may tell a very different story.

In this episode of the Profitable Christian Business Podcast, Doug Greathouse sits down with Douglas Shaw, author of Curative Culture: Stepping Away from a Toxic Workplace, to explore how leaders can build healthy, high-performing workplaces rooted in dignity, trust, accountability, purpose, and Christian values.

Douglas says employees are constantly evaluating three things when they enter a workplace:

Am I safe?

Can I trust your intentions?

Can I respect you?

Those questions reveal far more about your real culture than a mission statement hanging on the wall.

Douglas also challenges the idea that healthy culture means soft leadership.

A curative culture still demands excellence.

It still requires accountability.

It still requires difficult conversations.

And sometimes it requires removing someone—even a high performer—to protect the rest of the organization.

In one of the strongest stories from the episode, Douglas explains why he hesitated to deal with two highly productive but toxic employees. A consultant finally challenged him: if leadership continued tolerating their behavior, the rest of the company would assume leadership approved of it.

Douglas acted.

The employees left.

And something unexpected happened:

Other people began to flourish.

In this episode:

What Douglas means by Curative Culture
How nature helped inspire the idea behind the book
How quickly you can sense whether a workplace feels healthy
The three questions employees silently ask
Why leadership owns culture
How Christian leaders should think about the Imago Dei
Why treating employees with dignity does not eliminate accountability
How Douglas handled an employee he initially wanted to fire
Why understanding context can change a difficult personnel decision
How a firing can sometimes become a blessing
Why healthy culture isn't "soft"
How culture affects retention and profitability
Why toxic high performers can damage the entire organization
Why what leaders tolerate becomes part of the culture
How to improve culture starting with leadership self-awareness
Why leaders should ask, "How do I want it to feel to work here?"
Why values must be embodied instead of simply written down
How servant leadership changes the use of power
Why great leaders ask questions instead of always making pronouncements
How leaders can stay connected to employees
How Douglas maintained culture after his company went remote
Why remote teams still need intentional in-person connection
Why asking employees for their opinions builds confidence
Why purpose can keep employees engaged longer than compensation alone

Douglas ends with a powerful leadership challenge:

Help employees understand what they are actually accomplishing through their work.

Don't simply give people a job.

Help them understand the mission they're part of.

Connect with Douglas Shaw

Doug Shaw Perspective: DougShawPerspective.com

Douglas Shaw & Associates: DouglasShaw.com

Book: Curative Culture: Stepping Away from a Toxic Workplace

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Stop Blaming Your People: Fix the Systems That Are Breaking Your Business with Adam Ward Sep 16, 2026

Show notes

What if the biggest problem inside your business isn't your people?

What if it's the system you've asked them to work inside?

In this episode of the Profitable Christian Business Podcast, Doug Greathouse sits down with organizational architect, executive coach, best-selling author, and transformation expert Adam M. Ward to explore organizational friction, systems thinking, sustainable growth, burnout, aggressive goal setting, and faith-driven leadership.

Adam has spent more than 20 years diagnosing broken systems across multiple industries. He tells Doug that after doing this long enough, he can often spot organizational problems in about 30 seconds.

One thing he looks for?

Stacks.

Stacks of inventory.

Stacks of emails.

Stacks of meetings.

Stacks of projects.

Anywhere work continually piles up can signal that part of the organization isn't flowing properly.

But Adam makes an even stronger argument:

"If you're blaming people, you have a system problem."

Most employees don't come to work intending to fail. When capable people repeatedly depend on heroics, workarounds, phone-a-friend solutions, or constant firefighting just to get through the day, leadership needs to examine the environment those people have been given.

In this episode:

What completing an Ultraman taught Adam about business transformation
Why you shouldn't ask a "couch potato" organization to immediately run an Ironman
How Adam defines organizational friction
Why different business problems require different improvement frameworks
How to recognize a system problem versus a people problem
Why Adam looks for "stacks" when diagnosing a company
How to prioritize when multiple systems are broken
Why revenue and profit are outputs—not the underlying processes
Why Adam says "money masks everything"
Why leadership humility determines whether transformation can happen
How to perform a simple internal systems audit
Why every company has more good ideas than it can execute
Why repetitive processes need documentation and continuous improvement
The difference between the entrepreneur who dreams and the operator who scales
Why startups need to transition from startup mentality to production mentality
Why broken systems—not simply workload—can cause burnout
Why leaders should ask frontline employees how to improve their own work
Adam's approach to aggressive but realistic goals
Why leaders underestimate what's possible long-term while overestimating what's possible short-term
Why progress should still be celebrated when a stretch goal isn't fully achieved
How Adam's Christian faith shapes the way he works with clients
Why character matters more than getting ahead
What it means to trust God when business outcomes aren't controllable
Why a friend once told Adam to put down the whiteboard and fast and pray
Adam's candid story about self-reliance, burnout, and eventually needing intensive recovery and pastoral care
Why successful leaders need accountability and Christian community
Adam's final challenge around integrity, vision, direction, and trusting God

Free Organizational Diagnostic

Adam offers a free 30-question organizational diagnostic on his website that provides immediate results.

Adam M. Ward — Website & Free Diagnostic

Stop Drifting. Start Executing.

Once you know what needs to change, you still need to execute.

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Humility as an Operating System: Faith, Growth & Leadership with Kenny Wyatt Sep 02, 2026

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How do you grow a company without losing your culture, your mission, your faith—or the people you're called to serve?

In this episode of the Profitable Christian Business Podcast, Doug Greathouse sits down with Kenny Wyatt, CEO of Pushpay, for a practical conversation about faith-driven leadership, company culture, customer focus, stewardship, innovation, goal setting, and sustainable growth.

Kenny describes one of his foundational leadership principles as:

"Humility as an operating system."

For Kenny, servant leadership isn't the opposite of high performance. Leaders can set ambitious goals, hold people accountable, make difficult personnel decisions, and build high-performing teams while still leading with humility, love, and purpose.

Kenny also makes a strong case that CEOs and founders cannot allow growth to disconnect them from the customer. He argues that leaders need to spend significant time with their ideal customer profile, listening closely enough to recognize when the company is beginning to drift from its mission.

In this episode:

What fly fishing taught Kenny about adaptability, instinct, and leadership
Why culture matters even when you're a company of one
Why Kenny hires for mission and values before skill
What Pushpay does and how it serves churches
How Pushpay evaluates AI and emerging technology
Why your ideal customer profile should guide innovation
Why CEOs can't outsource their relationship with customers
How to recognize when a high-growth company is drifting
How to create and use a customer advisory board
Why in-person customer conversations still matter
Kenny's Philippians 2 approach to servant leadership
What "humility as an operating system" looks like in practice
How to hold people accountable without abandoning grace
How to handle difficult firing decisions with dignity
Why stewardship includes time, talent, and treasure
How to identify your company's stewardship metric
How faith shapes Kenny's approach as CEO
Why your leadership team matters so much
A radically different approach to annual goal setting
Why Kenny believes you should rebuild the business every single year
Why leadership retreats create better thinking
Why Christian entrepreneurs need to keep prayer in the driver's seat

Kenny closes the conversation with a deceptively simple challenge for every Christian business leader:

How's your prayer life?

Because sustainable growth isn't simply about better technology, smarter goals, or stronger systems.

It's about becoming the kind of leader capable of stewarding the growth God has entrusted to you.

Connect with Kenny Wyatt & Pushpay

Pushpay: Pushpay

Nurture: Nurture

Stop Drifting. Start Executing.

Knowing what matters isn't enough.

The Goal Getting App helps entrepreneurs turn clarity into a focused 90-day plan, identify the needle-moving actions that actually create progress, and consistently execute.

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How to Stay Calm, Lead Authentically, and Perform Under Pressure with Jon Sheldon Aug 26, 2026

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What happens to your leadership when the pressure rises, the plan stops working, and you have to make a decision without perfect information?

In this episode of the Profitable Christian Business Podcast, Doug Greathouse sits down with leadership, growth, and performance coach Jon Sheldon to explore what combat, entrepreneurship, sales leadership, coaching, marriage, and faith have taught him about performing when the stakes are high.

Jon served as a Marine infantry leader during the Iraq War before building a career in finance, Fortune 500 sales leadership, and eventually coaching business owners, sales leaders, and high performers.

But some of the most powerful lessons in this conversation aren't about tactics.

They're about love, purpose, authenticity, ego, clarity, resilience, and community.

Jon shares why combat taught him a kind of love and commitment that is difficult to describe unless you've experienced it—and how that same commitment influences the way he serves clients today. He explains that strong leadership requires wanting the people around you to win, sometimes even more than you want to win yourself.

We also unpack Jon's framework for making decisions under pressure:

Clarity → Condition → Cost → Align → Act → Adapt

Instead of waiting until chaos arrives, Jon argues that leaders need an internal operating system they've practiced enough that good decision-making becomes almost second nature.

In this episode:

What combat taught Jon about pressure, sacrifice, love, and leadership
Why great leaders want their people to win
Why work-life "balance" is better understood as counterbalance
How to define purpose without talking about your career
Why your actions—not your words—prove your authenticity
How ego prevents leaders from adapting quickly
Why humility increases trust
Jon's internal operating system for making decisions under pressure
Why clarity must come before action
The four parts of Jon's Personal Performance Blueprint
Why motivation still matters
How accepting the cost of a decision creates confidence
Why saying no protects your purpose
Why entrepreneurs need coaches, mentors, systems, and community
Why successful men need permission to admit they aren't always okay

Jon closes with an important reminder:

It's okay not to be okay all the time.

Strong leaders don't have to carry every stone themselves.

Connect with Jon Sheldon

Website: https://www.belleauwood.coach

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/belleauwood_coaching/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-sheldon-82760a51/

Ready to turn clarity into execution?

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The Beliefs Sabotaging Your Leadership and Purpose—with Shawn Sommerkamp Jul 23, 2026

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What is quietly sabotaging your leadership, career, and God-given purpose?

According to Christian executive coach Shawn Sommerkamp, the greatest obstacle is often not your boss, your company, the economy, or a lack of opportunity.

It is what you are telling yourself.

In this episode of the Profitable Christian Business Podcast, Doug Greathouse sits down with Shawn Sommerkamp, founder of Motivationeer, motivational speaker, and ICF-certified professional coach.

Shawn combines biblical truth, brain science, and executive coaching to help leaders change how they think, improve how they perform, and influence their organizations for Christ.

Doug and Shawn explore the difference between positive thinking and truthful thinking, why negative internal beliefs sabotage otherwise talented leaders, and how Christians can discover greater purpose in the work God has already placed in front of them.

You will discover:

The four internal blockers represented by the acronym FAIL
Why listening can be one of the most powerful ways to love and lead
How negative self-talk affects performance and confidence
Why truthful thinking creates more sustainable change than positive thinking
How preparation helps overcome the fear of public speaking
The connection between biblical principles and modern brain science
How to identify the values that fuel your energy and passion
Why clarity, systems, and measurable goals matter
How Christian leaders can influence workplace culture without being performative
Why serving others does not mean saying yes to everything
How high-value content can build trust before the sale
The question every leader should ask before setting a 90-day goal

One of Shawn's most important reminders is that your career is not merely a way to make a living. It can be a way to transform the world.

Connect With Shawn Sommerkamp

Visit Shawn's website:

https://motivationeer.com

Explore his coaching resources, core-values assessment, free training, and 72 weeks of inspiration.

YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/motivationeer

LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sdsommerkamp/

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/motivationeering

Stop Drifting and Start Executing

Do your goals keep fading out—not because you are lazy, but because you lack a clear system for execution?

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Choose one clear 90-day focus
Identify weekly needle-moving actions
Build consistency through daily execution
Measure meaningful progress
Finish what they start

Start your next 90 days with greater clarity, execution, and momentum:

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